Word: lashing
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...tree-shaded streets and the old courthouse square to stop the enrollment of twelve Negro students in the local high school. Clinton is the only place in Tennessee (except the federal enclave of Oak Ridge) to integrate its school, and outsiders came streaming in last week to lash the little town back into line...
...meteorological meeting at Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College and had a long talk with three men from the Kansas City weather bureau. One of these was Donald C. House, supervising forecaster of SELS (Severe Local Storm Warning Center), which tries to decide what clouds are likely to lash the ground with destructive twisters. After the talk, the meteorologists agreed that what tornado forecasting needed most was a man to investigate the clouds' innards and that Pilot Cook...
...motion some of the evil forces and evil actions which are too reminiscent of our dark est days. Councils have sprung up throughout the South that are, despite the feelings of their respectable sponsors, nothing more than uptown Ku Klux Klans, using instead of tar and feathers and the lash the equally destructive economic pressure. They say they are dedicated to the idea of defeating desegregation "by means short of violence." But already the spirit of violence has manifested itself...
...Even after an unlucky punch cost him the sight of one eye and cataracts dimmed the other, Sam fought on. In Mexico City, in 1923, he had to say to his seconds, "Just point me straight at him," before he could shuffle across the ring toward his opponent and lash out wildly to win the heavyweight championship of Mexico...
...Pete Lash took a handoff, tore around the right side of the Navy line, away from All-America End Ron Beagle and Tackle John Hopkins, skipped down the sideline and scored. Chesnauskas converted again...